How a huge fleet of 17 spacecraft discovered something surprising about solar eruptions
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A network of 17 spacecraft has captured the asymmetric structure of a coronal mass ejection in extraordinary detail for the first time, revealing a "hidden" cloud headed toward Earth. The post Fleet of 17 spacecraft reveals the secrets of a strange solar eruption appeared first on in.gr.
How a huge fleet of 17 spacecraft discovered something surprising about solar eruptions
A misbehaving coronal mass ejection (CME) that blew out a hidden cloud of charged particles aimed at Earth has been tracked by a record 17 spacecraft spread throughout the solar system, revealing the CME to be surprisingly lopsided.CMEs are "burps" from the sun – huge clouds of magnetized plasma belched out from the sun's hot outer atmosphere, the corona, by the energy resulting from a solar flare. The magnetized CME cloud then expands out into …
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